The Baking Sheet - Issue #101

May 27, 2022

From Paris, with love

Welcome to this week’s issue of The Baking Sheet! Lots is going on and it's amazing to see the Tezos Community come together IRL at events like Art Basel Hong Kong, Tezos Vancouver, and at the upcoming Tezos Greece Meetup. Don't forget, Tez/Dev is a little less than 2 months away in Paris, hope to see all of you there.

In this week’s issue, we’re going to take a closer look at the recent fxhash momentum.

Ecosystem Insights: fxhash is rising

In case you haven’t noticed, fxhash is starting to make lots of headway. Recently, it overtook OBJKT and H=N as the top NFT platform on Tezos in terms of on-chain activity.

Like H=N, Versum, and other marketplaces on Tezos - fxhash takes a similar approach in driving eye traffic to purely the art. The only caveat is the UI, it’s not nearly as polished as Versum’s. Or, at least you don’t have the same feeling of where you’re using a marketplace but don’t really see it.

Fxhash is an open platform where artists can publish generative tokens which are stored on the Tezos blockchain. These tokens are programs designed to produce random outputs - allowing for any user with a Tezos wallet to mint their own unique iteration of the token.

So, fxhash very much caters to the generative style of art. In effect, the platform provides a framework so that generative artists can have a space in which they can mint their pieces which are meant to be generative.

That said, flocks of artists and creators have begun migrating over to fxhash. Nearly 200k contracts calls have been created over the past two weeks on the platform.

As Tezos continues to evolve and grow, we’re excited to see the continued momentum of all the different NFT platforms alongside it! Be sure to check out fxhash if you haven’t yet.

Tez/Dev Registration is now open

Join builders, creators, and innovators from across the Tezos ecosystem. TezDev Paris is a hub for ideas, connecting a community of Tezos blockchain enthusiasts committed to building the future of Web3.

Special keynote by Arthur Breitman, co-founder and early architect of Tezos and talks by various teams from the Tezos Ecosystem.

  • Available now: Early Bird $10

  • Starting June 9: Regular Admission $25

  • Free tickets for students: Promo code STUDENTZ (Register using a valid student email address and provide a valid student ID upon event check-in at entrance)

Tezos Vancouver was a success!

More than 20 people gathered at the first Tezos Vancouver meetup since the pandemic. It was great seeing familiar and new faces sharing ideas for the Tezos Ecosystem. Thanks to Jev and the entire ECAD Labs team putting on a very Tezos-centric event and look forward to hosting these every month moving forward.

Don't forget -- The first 'Tezos Greece' Social Meetup for 2022 has arrived!

On Saturday, May 28, at 19:00 we will meet in Athens, at "Yades Event Venues" ( https://g.co/kgs/2JZmhb ) to meet and discuss everything around Tezos!

This Week in the Tezos Ecosystem

The Madfish team has announced the official Temple Wallet Mobile release for Android

It is now available on the Google Play Store as a free download.

Sync it with your desktop wallet or create a new account and enjoy a full-featured Tezos wallet on your mobile device.

More information about the Temple mobile app you may read in the Madfish blog.

When we first started playing with the idea of building a name service for Tezos, I don’t think we fully grasped what a massive undertaking and a journey this project would become.

Every Tezos protocol update boasts major innovations. Granada has liquidity baking, Ithaca has the Tenderbake consensus algorithm, and Jakarta promises an integrated L2. But what changes does the community suggest?

Katherine Ng, TZ APAC Head of APAC Marketing and Operations discusses its exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong. Tezos is an open source blockchain where it presents 20 digital artists including NFTs. She speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts on "Daybreak Asia".

The Abra cryptocurrency wallet, lending, and trading app with over 2,000,000 wallet installs has listed Tezos as a currency on the platform.

Monaco, MC, 27th May, 2022, Chainwire Oracle Red Bull Racing is set to take its fans even closer to the action with the launch of its second series of digital collectibles with a one-of-a-kind auction at the Monaco Grand Prix.

Read the latest release notes on the popular PvP game on Tezos

This Week in Tezos Development

We invite you to build the code base for future use cases for the Arts & Culture on the Tezos blockchain. Bounties will be created in a collaboration of eight cultural institutions who are ready to look beyond drops and collectables and will co-create open source Proof of Concepts on the Tezos blockchain with the aim to be tested and aimed to put into production in the near future.

Tezos tickets are a built-in generic data type, with strong invariants enforced by the type system. That’s a mouthful and doesn’t convey much without context. Tickets: what, why, how? What makes tickets tick? So let’s talk about tickets. And let’s not assume any prior knowledge about linear types, michelson primitives or the edo protocol period, and let’s take our time. First, let’s give some context.

A visual programming tool for writing smart contracts VisualTez Website Introduction Video The VisualTez project brings visual programming to smart-contract development in the Tezos ecosystem.

Latest TzKT update improved the functionality of Tezos token exploring. This guide video shows how to use the new TzKT explorer features.

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